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I listed this in serious discussion because I want to discuss the pros and cons in a serious manner that does not turn into a flamewar.

I have been a FreeBSD user for 6 years, but there is a lot more support for linux, so I am thinking of making a switch, at least short term - mainly for the audio support.

Fedora has a fantastic package called Planet CCRMA - which is a full on audio package, including a low latency rt kernel mod. Gentoo also has a good audio package, although I would choose gentoo more for it's likeness to FreeBSD (ports - best thing ever invented!)

any thoughts?

Dont actually know what you are talking about, but it seems you got time for a post. You kept your words. Great

just incase anyone is interested....I installed Slackware after advice from SpFY.....It didn't turn out well, I kept cringing, wishing I was back on FreeBSD.........The 2.4 kernel in slack was well configured, but none of my USB stuff worked on it. I tried to use the 2.6 kernel, but by default the mouse was turned off, the network cards were all turned off, the sound was turned off, most stuff was turned off....just incase it was still unstable......there were no 2.6 source files to be found, so I couldn't recompile the kernel, and I couldn't get online because of no network. The auto modules didn't seem to detect anything, udev seem to crap itself whenever i plugged in my flash drive. In short it was a waste of my time.

I decided to visit distrowatch and see which was the most popular. I was surprised to find that Ubuntu was the most popular. I have tried it in the past, and was not overly impressed, but decided to give it another go. It also has excellent audio apps, which plug right in......I will have to recompile the kernel to run it at a lower latency, but overall I am happy, and it is so simple to use. It is easier to use than windows, but more stable....

i think you would be better suited for gentoo. very clean and mature, and like you said very similar to fbsd (if you like the whole compiling-every-package-on-your-desktop thing.)

First of all, hello thanjee

Now, before some time I was Fedora Core 6 user, it is fantastic distro, but my machine was too slow, so there were some problems, you know. So if your computer is new, and you have at least 256 megs of ram there wont be any problem to run FC6 or you can wait for a while untill FC7 reliase.
Good Luck!

Mr. Fixz

A base debian install usually does a great job in my opinion.
You don't have to compile everything yourself that way. But you still have an open choice.

the best distro is handmade distro ))

but I use Slackware, in my opinion it is the best linux ever made.. it is very simple